text:
Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) occur when the connections between veins and arteries don't form correctly and become entangled. Usually, veins and arteries develop these abnormalities as a fetus grows in the womb or just after a baby is born.
AVMs can occur anywhere in the body. But when they happen in the spinal cord and brain, called neurological AVMs, they are more likely to have effects on the body. This is because the brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system. About 300,000 Americans are affected by neurological AVMs.
Facts about spinal arteriovenous malformations
AVMs are equally common among different races and ethnicities, and in both sexes. Most people don't even know that they have a spinal AVM—it may be found during treatment or diagnosis for another condition. Their size can vary from much less than an inch to 2.5 inches. Fewer than 15 percent of people with neurological AVMs will have symptoms or complications.
Spinal AVMs can cause problems with circulation because they interfere with the body's blood flow. Normally, arteries transport oxygen-rich blood away from the heart and to cells throughout the body. The veins bring that blood, with its oxygen stores used up, back to the lungs and heart. But the malformations of the arteries and veins in spinal AVMs don't allow this natural cycle to occur because of missing capillaries, which regulate blood flow.
Spinal AVMs can also lead to a serious situation if they rupture, causing bleeding into surrounding areas. They can also cause symptoms by compressing parts of the spinal cord.
When symptoms occur
Spinal AVMs don't often cause any symptoms. When they do, they're often minor and difficult to notice. In a small number of people, however, the symptoms can be severe enough to affect their ability to function.
These are the most common symptoms of a spinal AVM:
Muscles that feel weak or become paralyzed
Ataxia, a condition in which you have problems with balance and coordination
Pain or unusual sensations throughout your body, such as tingling or numbness
If you experience symptoms, your doctor may use these tests to diagnose a spinal AVM:
Angiography (X-rays used in combination with a dye injected into an artery)
MRI scans
CT scans
Magnetic resonance angiography
Treatment may involve a combination of surgery by a neurosurgeon, or endovascular embolization, which is less invasive and involves plugging the vessels with a catheter by a radiologist. Radiation therapy is also an option. The type of surgery you have depends on the location and size of the AVM.
Your doctor may also give you medications to treat symptoms, such as back pain, caused by AVMs.
Calling the doctor
Any signs or symptoms that indicate a problem with your nervous system, such as headaches that won't go away, seizures, and difficulty controlling your muscles, should generally be evaluated by your doctor.
If spinal AVMs aren't treated, they may cause damage to the spinal cord because it can't get the oxygen it needs from your blood. A spinal AVM may also hemorrhage and leak blood.
Key points to remember
Even though a spinal AVM may not always cause symptoms, it can still be dangerous, particularly if it starts to cause symptoms. You should have any suspicious symptoms checked out by your doctor.


text:
In a speech Tuesday, President William Powers Jr. endorsed a report that claims it would yield the University $490 million over 10 years.
The report is the collection of findings by the Committee on Business Productivity, a group of 13 business leaders commissioned by Powers in April 2012 to find efficiencies in the University's non-academic services.
The report, titled "Smarter Systems for a Better UT," proposes a series of reorganizations, rate increases and prioritizations to achieve its end goal.
In his speech, Powers said that while universities are not "simply businesses," they do exercise some business functions, such as supporting information technology, reimbursing travel and buying resources from outside vendors.
"In these areas, they ought to be following the best business practices," Powers said. "As a recipient of both tax dollars and tuition dollars, to do otherwise is to betray the public trust. For any public institution, efficiency is a moral imperative. But it also is the smart thing to do because it can free up much-needed resources we can redirect to our core missions of teaching and research."
Three primary areas are identified by the report: asset utilization, technology commercialization and administrative service transformation.
The report outlines several proposals, such as raising dorm, food and parking rates; selling excess power produced by the University's power plants in the open market; increasing the licensing volume of the Office of Technology Commercialization; and reorganizing the information technology, finance and human resources operations of the University.
The authors of the report also argued the need for an "operations czar" or "project manager" that would oversee the implementation of the recommendations. In his speech, Powers appointed Kevin Hegarty, executive vice president and chief financial officer, to do so.
In 2002, then-president Larry Faulkner commissioned a similar though much larger group of business leaders and citizens — mostly UT alumni — to produce a report that would outline an academic vision for the University. Known as the Commission of 125, the group's 2004 report created a 25-year timeframe.
Powers ended his speech with a story about the Pope's decision in 1586 to create a 344-ton obelisk. Powers said the implementation of the proposal, like the obelisk, will need to be done "one logical step at a time."
"Because they were successful at this, many more obelisks were moved around Rome in the following years, one of which weighed 510 tons," Powers said. "If we get this right, there's no telling what else we'll be able to accomplish, and there are other areas of our operations that will need our attention too."

subset: commoncrawl


text:
|Highest Price:
|Lowest Priced:
|Average Price:
|Updated: Friday, September 25, 8:27PM
Research Calgary attached homes information directory of community real estate reviews, listings, Luxury homes, condos for sale, maps, townhomes and local REALTORS®. Find today's Calgary real estate statistics, public schools explore community information parks and daily breaking news. The real estate market is changing you need experienced Top rated real estate agents experts ready to answer your questions about Attached homes, Detached homes, neighborhoods, schools, and the newest listings for sale in Calgary. Compare golf courses, Google maps, streetview, Calgary real estate maps , wonderful restaurants, shops, off leash dog parks and of course the people! IF buying or selling real estate, you can expect expert advice, high quality service, straight forward communication plus attention to detail. Information on homes for sale, foreclosures, acreages, Lake homes, New Construction.
|Active Calgary Listings
|Average Price
|Highest Price
|Lowest Priced
|Compare Todays Calgary Real Estate
When buying Calgary attached Calgary homes be sure to find a local agent with the market knowledge and availability to statistics, market overview, community news. Even if you think you know sometimes it can be hard to find the perfect home and whether you're looking for a quiet place to settle down, or you want to be close to downtown we've got real estate listings.
The Calgary attached homes segment of the housing market is extremely diverse. There are different kinds of properties in this segment as well and lots of different product options within both types.
Search Calgary real estate for sale, local homes and real estate listing agents, community reviews


text:
Watch CBSN Live
A worshiper prepares to launch a small boat holding offerings into the ocean during a ceremony honoring Iemanja, Goddess of the Sea, as part of traditional New Year's celebrations on the sands of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec. 28, 2013.
Iemanja is a goddess from the African Candomble religion brought to Brazil by West African slaves. Devotees traditionally mark the day dressed in white while carrying a statue of Iemanja to the beach along with lighting candles and tossing flowers and other offerings into the sea.
Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images


text:
Africa GFS Lifted Index +72 hour Chart
- location
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- New Zealand
- North America
- South America
- model
- BoM 10-day
- US 8-day
- CMC 6-day
About GFS
Global Forecast System. The operational numerical weather forecasting model run by NCEP. The GFS superceded the AVN and MRF models, on which it is largely based. Forecast data from the GFS is available out to 180 hours at full resolution and 16 days at a reduced resolution.
Weather News
Kununurra counts 'catastrophic' cost after freak storm slams WA town's airport
Kununurra aviation operators are assessing the damage after an intense storm flipped planes and damaged buildings in the West Australian town on Wednesday afternoon.
Thundery Thursday in northeast NSW and southeast Qld
Thunderstorms are developing over northeast NSW and southeast Queensland this afternoon, prompting warnings in some areas.


text:
I really don't like seeing people in discomfort, but it's pretty much a daily thing, especially this time of year. Kansas City's urban core has a sizable poverty problem. Try as the city government may to revitalize areas of blight and destitution, the fact remains that many homeless still dwell the streets. When I go to lunch, I see people sleeping in the alley behind my office. When I get my morning mocha, I see people huddling close to City Center Square. They wander in and out. Maybe they're rummaging the garbage bins for leftovers. Maybe they're changing clothes or trying to clean themselves a bit in the bathrooms. Maybe they're just trying to get out of the cold or out of the blistering summer heat. I'm not sure.
One thing is for certain though. Teetering on the brink of starving and freezing to death at the same time will take its toll on a person's sanity, and this morning, patrons of City Center Square got a heck of a show, probably due to this fact. Sitting there, sipping my morning Mocha with Lorin, we heard some noise from the corridors of the food court. Soon, there was a lot of clamoring, and people flocking into Starbucks or simply leaving the building. Someone was very, very unhappy. It was a man that I'd seen plenty of times before. I can assume he's under-privileged at the least if not homeless.
The screaming and shouting wasn't full of anger. It was full of desperation. The cries came not from his lungs, but from his very soul. To the un-trained ear, this is just another madman being dragged back out into the streets, kicking and screaming. To me, though, I hear something much more visceral -- a cry for survival. It was one of the most god-awful sounds I've heard. I'm not sure if the man had done anything more illegal than loitering. Sometimes, theft is a bit of a problem. During back-to-school season, people would come in off the streets and steal things out of the donation bins. Panhandling is also a problem downtown, but it seems a lot of people seem to just get kicked out of CCS for no reason other than loitering, though.
Regardless, I'm really torn on this subject. I've seen people pull themselves up by the bootstraps to overcome these kinds of situations to better themselves and their way of life without a lot of help from others. At the same time, I wish I were really able to help them a bit more than I do, but really helping without contributing to their complacency about their way of life.
Well, all I can say it was an interesting morning. And I really feel bad for that guy right now.
Random Tunage:
T.A.T.U. - All The Things She Said
Robert Miles - Children
Friday, February 01, 2008
It kind of makes your heart ache...
I really don't like seeing people in discomfort, but it's pretty much a daily thing, especially this time of year. Kansas City's urban core has a sizable poverty problem. Try as the city government may to revitalize areas of blight and destitution, the fact remains that many homeless still dwell the streets. When I go to lunch, I see people sleeping in the alley behind my office. When I get my morning mocha, I see people huddling close to City Center Square. They wander in and out. Maybe they're rummaging the garbage bins for leftovers. Maybe they're changing clothes or trying to clean themselves a bit in the bathrooms. Maybe they're just trying to get out of the cold or out of the blistering summer heat. I'm not sure.
7 comments:
- Revrunner said...
My church is hosting the homeless for a week beginning in just a little more than a week now. That's certainly not the answer to the underlying causes of homelessness, but at least it can help alleviate some of the misery.
Maybe you can encourage your church to become a shelter or, if that's not practical, maybe it can partner with other churches to help. And maybe through your church you can help put pressure on your local government to do more to assist the homeless.
- February 01, 2008 9:51 AM
Vey sad situation,you never know what that person has gone thru,most people think they are just lazy,but what they might not know is if a loved one was lost or a addiction has overcome their ways of living a normal life.Drinking had a big grip on me years ago to the point of losing everything ! but i and like many others must fight the demons(temptations),i now just grab one of my bikes and start peddling !i now love my bikes instead of wiskey & beer! good topic.
- February 01, 2008 10:26 AM
- Jamie said...
Great post. And the fact that you noticed all of this is something that I commonly hear as one of the benefits of cycling - the reconnection with society. It's too easy for drivers, in their moving isolation booths, to tune out society and ignore the less fortunate as they whisk by.
Some people say they should have the right to do just that. I disagree. If you can harden your heart enough that you can walk or bike past these folks without feeling something, that's your business. But you shouldn't be able to enable yourself to fly past quickly without even noticing them. That's just heartless.
- February 01, 2008 1:58 PM
- MRMacrum said...
A very interesting stat about the homeless - 1 in 4 is most likely to be a veteran.
Who knows what demons they have floating around in their brains from their time serving our our country. But if the percentage is that much, it speaks very poorly for the support network our vets have when they leave the service.
I am with you- torn between not feeling much empathy for slackers, yet I know it is more often than not, a case of emotional or mental issues.
I once spent an afternoon with a homeless black woman in Baltimore as a teenager. I gave her some money for some MD 20/20 and we split it, passing it back and forth in it's paper bag as we sat on some back water wharf at the Inner Harbor.
It was my few hours with her so many years ago that made me realize that these folks do not necessarily choose to not fit in, something in their soul prevents it.
- February 02, 2008 10:25 AM
- Yokota Fritz said...
I'm glad you're sensitive to the issue and haven't become jaded by the presence of the homeless around you. If you want a real eye opener, volunteer and spend some time at a homeless mission or shelter. Many of them can use the help, especially if you can stick around for more than a couple of days.
A lot of the homeless have significant mental health issues. Drug problems are a result of them trying to self medicate.
- February 02, 2008 11:39 PM
- Jett said...
Around 1975, there was a policy shift regarding an invisible segment of our population, the roughly 2% of our population with either schizophrenia or manic-depressiveness. According to the best science of the day, policy makers stopped subsidizing the costs of institutionalizing the mentally ill in the belief they would fare better amongst the general population. This probably remains true for the majority of mentally ill, but those without family or friends are usually out on the street.
Being out and about on the bike brings me into contact with many of my neighbors, including those without an address. It is interesting that many of them carry all their possessions on bikes. I greet them just as warmly as I do anyone else; they seem to carry a smile further down the road.
- February 04, 2008 8:15 AM
- Frogman said...
For those interested, Kansas City does have a good homeless shelter downtown: http://www.cityunionmission.org/
- February 05, 2008 9:52 AM
Privacy Policy
By leaving a link or e-mail address in my comments (including your blogger profile or website URL), you acknowledge that the published comment and associated links will be available to the public and that they will likely be clicked on.


text:
Locanda Verde: Come for the Fried Chicken, But Stay for the Pie
Monday Night Fried Chicken at Locanda Verde
377 Greenwich Street, New York NY 10013 (at North Moore Street; map); 212-925-3797; locandaverdenyc.com
Service: Friendly, accommodating, a tad slow-paced (it was the first night)
Setting: Locanda Verde's cozy, wood everywhere private dining room
Compare It To: Blue Ribbon, Blue Smoke, Noodle Bar's Southern-Style Fried Chicken
Must-Haves: Bacon, biscuits, pie
Cost: $55 including dinner, a drink, the band, tax, and tip
Grade: B for the dinner overall, A+ for the biscuits and pie
As the fancy-pants fried chicken craze continues unabated, it's worth noting that over the last few years I have heard from numerous reliable sources that Andrew Carmellini made the best fried chicken in New York City when he was cooking at Cafe Boulud. So even though Carmellini is now cooking Italian food at Locanda Verde, he apparently has some legit fried chicken bonafides.
When I heard that Carmellini was cooking up a mess of fried chicken in Locanda Verde's back room every Monday night for the next few weeks, I knew it was something I had to explore immediately. And if the lure of Carmellini's fried chicken wasn't enough, the promise of Karen DeMasco making pie to eat for dessert after that chicken was like pienip to serious eaters.
The fried chicken feed is held in Locanda Verde's private dining room in the back of the restaurant. When we walked in, a band, Brooklyn's The Woes, was playing beside a lovely cozy wood-burning (not gas) fireplace.
The first course, house-smoked thick-cut bacon with fresh lima beans and tomato, was courtesy of guest chef Matt Greco of Char No. 4. Greco's bacon was truly exceptional: smoky, meaty, and salty. It reminded me of Nueske's or Alan Benton's, and that's as high a bacon compliment as I can pay. The lima beans and tomato offered a creamy counterpoint with just a touch of acid.
The main event, the fried chicken, came out of the kitchen accompanied by five side dishes; fresh local corn, butter biscuits, collards with honey and pepper vinegar, Anthony's slaw with pickled jalapeno, and a chunky tomato, red onion, and cucumber salad.
The chicken had a blond, well-seasoned crust that gave way to incredibly tender and juicy meat. Even the white meat was downright succulent and insanely flavorful. But to move me to tears fried chicken needs to have a crunchy, crispy, almost lacquered crust that becomes one with the skin and the flesh, and this chicken was lacking in the crunchy-crispy cosmic one-ness department.
The biscuits, however, belong in the Biscuit Hall of Fame. They had a great outer crunch, ridiculously tender and moist insides, and they were painted with a honey butter that took these suckers to biscuit nirvana.
The corn was a fine piece of local corn that had been simply steamed.
The greens were tasty and flavorful. I'm guessing there was some form of pork in these greens.
The crunchy enough vinegar-based coleslaw was much more sweet than hot.
The tomato, onion, and cucumber salad was in a simple vinaigrette.
Dessert brought back the magic. A nectarine-plum pie with an insanely flaky mostly butter lattice crust was as good as the biscuits. The nectarine slices and plum slices were cooked all the way through without being mushy, and every bite had just the right balance between sweetness and acidity. There is a place in pie heaven for this pie.
Blueberry crumb pie was packed with lots of non-goopy blueberries and a crunchy, not too sweet, powdered sugar-dusted crumb topping. It is a most excellent piece of blueberry crumb pie, but it won't change your life the way the nectarine-plum pie will.
Maybe the fried chicken at Locanda Verde will eventually ascend to my fried chicken pantheon (to be fair, we were there on the first night it was offered), but for now I have to console myself with the honey butter biscuits and the plum-nectarine pie.
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


text:
With the post season right around the corner, what are everyone's thoughts as to who will be successful, especially in the Tiffin Regional?
Coldwater is obviously demolishing the competition, with their top 5 going 18:00, 18:52, 19:09, 20:05, and 20:22... no one can even touch them it seems. Most teams' top runner goes around their 5th fastest time. (Sarah Kanney, Brittney Atkinson (L-C), and Tammy Berger (defending champ, versailles) will have quite a battle come state. Kanney seems to be favored, as she's beat Berger at least twice, but the fact that she's a freshman and has less racing experience could mean that Berger takes it all once again at State). Liberty Benton and Liberty Center will make all the other teams fight for spot number 4.
As far as individuals, top 3 will be Coldwater's top 2 and Brittney Atkinson (LC). Hannah Chappell-Dick, Delainey Phelps, Jill Kanney, Kelly Haubert, and Jessica Doepker are all going to be VERY close... Many of them have gone back and forth throughout the year. It will just come down to who wants it most.
Coldwater should sweep the regional meet, taking the boys title as well. Seneca East and New London are gonna round out the top 3, with Columbus Grove hopefully slipping in to state as well. It'll be close between them and Old Fort, and actually Elmwood as well.
Coldwater, once again, has two standout individuals. Mike Seas is an extremely hard worker and is seeded first at Tiffin, but Jon Wenning isn't far behind. Jason Willman, Jake Graham, and Jonathan Albaugh were very close at the Galion XC festival, all three earning PRs. Plus, Old Fort's Zach Alexander is having a great season!
Any additions?
Thoughts on teams or individuals who have improved this year or look to get some big prs at districts?
XC Regionals/State
Started by Erin4, Oct 19 2011 07:01 PMRegional state
5 replies to this topic
Posted 19 October 2011 - 07:01 PM
Posted 21 October 2011 - 03:56 PM
District CC at Ottawa pushed back until Sunday because of flooding
Posted 21 October 2011 - 04:01 PM
thanks for the info, coach!
"Forever never seems that long ~~until you're grown"
Bandido- November 24, 1957- August 12th, 2011.....RIP, my good friend... things will never be the same here without you. :(
Gonemad -June 26th, 1962-May 13th, 2008
Bandido- November 24, 1957- August 12th, 2011.....RIP, my good friend... things will never be the same here without you. :(
Gonemad -June 26th, 1962-May 13th, 2008
Posted 24 October 2011 - 07:14 AM
Columbus Grove is going to the youngstown Region .. not Tiffin ... Minster should be the 4th team in the Tiffin Region.. and new london is also going to youngstown
Edited by XC/Trackfan, 24 October 2011 - 07:17 AM.
Posted 25 October 2011 - 06:22 AM
should be really close in the Youngstown race for the 3rd 4th and 5th place teams!
Posted 29 October 2011 - 12:48 PM
Antwerp girls runner qualified as a team for regionals for the first time ever. Ellise Wetli is a pretty good runner but I don't know her time
1 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users


text:
1 oz 2019 Australian Kangaroo Silver Coin
Purchase your 1 oz 2019 Australian Kangaroo silver coin from our store online to enjoy the best price on the internet. This bespoke offering from the renowned Perth Mint pays tribute to the most famous of Australia's richly unique, indigenous fauna: the kangaroo.
The reverse features a magnificently detailed artist's rendering of the farthest jumping marsupial, set to staggering effect upon a field of eye-catching, star-burst design. Set within a ripple-textured, micro-engraved border also on the coin's reverse, you'll find the title of the coin, along with details of release year and metal weight, purity and content.
The obverse of the coin is a testament to the unparalleled minting prowess of Australia's Perth Mint, with a ripple textured border enclosing one of coinage's most detailed portrait's of Elizabeth II. Within the obverse border you will also see the coin's country of origin, as well as Elizabeth II's name and the coin's unique denominational value.
Australia's wilderness is home to in excess of 34 million kangaroos, although the species is to be found on not one single other island or continent. Commemorate the earth's diversity, without which dreams would surely lose their colour; fortify your holdings with a 1 oz 2019 Australian Kangaroo silver coin today.
In multiples of 25 this coin will ship in a tube. In multiples of 250 this coin will ship in a Perth Mint mini-monster box.
|Perth Mint
|Brilliant uncirculated
|Jody Clark's latest effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the words "Elizabeth II Australia 2019 1 Dollar" and the artist's initials
|Red kangaroo.
|Jody Clark (obverse)


text:
I am reading a text file of two-column numeric data. I do not know the number of rows that the file will contain. Currently, I read the file twice: Once to ascertain the length and the second time to fill the arrays with the data. Is there a way to create and populate the arrays while only having to read the text file once?
Here is my current code:
Thanks for your time.Code:FILE* fid; double tempx, tempy; fid = fopen("c:/file.txt","rt"); int i=0; while( fscanf(fid,"%le%le", &tempx, &tempy )!= EOF ) i++; rewind( fid ); x = new double[i]; y = new double[i]; i=0; while (fscanf(fid,"%le%le", x+i, y+i)!= EOF) i++; fclose(fid);


text:
Bloated! Will Vegan Help?!?
Hi, my name is Stephanie and i am new to vegan lifestyle! I'm trying it for a healthier lifestyle because i feel tired alot and am bloated constantly! I just want to feel good and feel energized!! would you say that a vegan diet would help!?!?
Hi Stephanie,
im in the same position as you. I was vegan about 15 years ago and lapsed but couldn't get away from the fact that it was the healthiest that I had ever felt.
I felt constantly bloated and uncomfortable and decided it was time to be kind to myself again. Two weeks in and I feel great. Eating vegan is filling me up before I can overest and keeping me full for longer and best if all the bloated feeling has gone, so stick with it and it will prove itself very quickly!
Mike :-)
google the causes of bloating.
This was genuinely exciting info in this website that will to help very happy for the wonderful engineering in this website. We are genuinely respected because of this info in this website that will to help very much loved for the excellent engineering in this website. It had been searching this wonderful approach is visible in this website that will to help strategy for
display is really excellent.
Je viens de découvrir ce blog et avoir de grands espoirs pour que cela continue. Continuez votre excellent travail, il est difficile de trouver les bons. J'ai ajouté à mes favoris. Et le concept de merci.
I have always had an issue with extra water retention I suppose just being a woman. Well being vegan did not help that issue for me, basically just cutting down on sodium works great and eating a lot of foods with natural water also works good.
Stay away from processed vegan foods like soy burgers and mock sausage. Yes I know they are good but you won't be bloated as much if stay away from them. Also I can not eat Seitan without feeling very fat the next day. Weird because I never thought I had issues to gluten but I suppose I do. And I love making homemade seitan, so now save it for special occasions.
I am 51 and post menopause now and this is what seems to work for me. Of course lots of raw veggies and a couple fruits a day, homemade beans and lentils, And for my grains, brown rice and other grains besides wheat. I love sprouted grain breads but can't get them where I live without driving at least an hour. So I pretty much do without them ugh.
Also watermelon, and watermelon seed tea is your friend if you are carrying extra water retention.


text:
IT WAS a dream come true when Hazel and Damian Brant signed the lease to set up a tile showroom at Grove Technology Park.
But soon after, she discovered she was pregnant with her fourth child — and medical problems meant she spent the next three months in hospital, much of it in intensive care.
She said: "We had been trying for a fourth child for a long time and decided it wasn't going to happen.
"But I fell pregnant just as we were signing the lease and spent three months in hospital. Damian was setting up the showroom in between visiting me in the intensive care unit."
Mrs Brant gave birth six weeks early after being diagnosed with the rare condition placenta percreta and ended up having eight blood transfusions.
Both mother and baby made a full recovery and the showroom, Azulejos Tiles, opened last May.
She said: "Damian has been running a tile fitting business for 20 years, working for housebuilders and domestic customers, and people have asked if we could supply the tiles as well as fitting them.
"With the new showroom, the idea is that people can come here and see how the tiles would look in a room.
"We have a lounge area and fireplace, a bathroom and wet room. People who find it difficult to imagine different designs and colours can come and look.
"Some people like to take their shoes off and have a walk around. It's quite interactive."
As the mother of four children aged 15 months to 12 years, she realises how difficult it is to make a decision with the family in tow.
So she set aside a play area for customers' children, complete with sit-on dinosaur, tent, jigsaws and other toys.
Before taking the Grove lease, Mr Brant ran his business, Tiling Excellence, from home in Drayton, having learnt his skills building and repairing swimming pools on cruise ships.
He said: "We never advertised and it has all been by word of mouth.
"Before now we have either worked with tiles supplied by our customers, or been told where to get them from, as specified by the architect."
The name Azulejos comes from the word tile in Portuguese – a language Mr Brant picked up from one of his staff – and supplies come from Italy and France as well as the UK.
As the business grows, the couple hope to take on more staff and Mrs Brant is keen to work fewer hours to fit in with family commitments.


text:
Dark Green Melon Knob
Click on image to zoom
Handmade Ceramic Furniture Knobs. Ideal for Drawer, Dresser, Cabinet, Wardrobe, Cupboard and Almirah.
- No Additional Hardware Required.
- Pack of One Piece
- Material: Ceramic, Metal
- 1.75 Inches Diameter Approx.
- 1.50 Inches Projection Approx.
- Bolt can be Trimmed to Size
- Handmade
Available in 3 Finishing Golden, Silver and Antique.
Posted in: Knobs & Handles, Ceramic knobs, Ceramic solid color knob
Product Code: SCMK-41/290
Size: 1.75
Material: Ceramic
Color: Green
Diameter: 4.44 CM,
Projection: 3.81 CM,
300 In Stock


text:
This premium dictionary domain name is available today for forward-thinking entrepreneurs!
|Moonshot Dot Coms are the difference between being a face in the crowd, or being the face of an industry
|Moonshot Dot Coms answer the very question or need consumers are looking to fill, greatly reducing customer acquisition cost
|Today, Moonshot Dot Coms and Branding are merging... as the dot com describes and often actually becomes the brand
|Being descriptive, Moonshot Dot Coms are optimized for future ai-voice-recognition, internet search i.e. VerbalNet.com. Call Ted Stalets 615-585-3294
Buy safely and securely with Escrow.com


text:
DIY: nautical knots on the table
All my china is white and blue (you might have seen some of my cooking fails on the FB page where I shamelessly post pics and make fun of myself!), and placemats or table cloths are either white or... white & blue.
Believe it or not, until yesterday I didn't have coasters. Which means rings on the tablecloths and high chances of rings on my wood kitchen table.
Love knots. Love blue. Needed coasters.
And since I already have already a nautical trivet... might as well keeping the same theme.
I even made (a two minute project) napkin rings with the leftover cord!
And if you are into dressing up your table for the Holidays...
you can always think of making these using
how to make a round plait or a 5 bights turk's head knot: tutorialTo make these coasters, I used about 3 yards or 4mm nylon utility cord each;
and I followed religiously this video tutorial:
but made few adjustments... because the result was something like this... which took me a while to get to the desired shape.
Here's what I did:
|once I got my shape right, I draw the outline on a piece of paper
This will come handy for few reasons:
* will speed up the process of getting the knot into the perfect shape;
* will help the process of making several coasters with the exact same dimensions.
Then I followed the steps, and used masking tape on each of the bights to keep my cord in place (also nylon rope is really slippery and the tape comes really handy).
Once I got to the end of all 6 of them, I finished them on the wrong side:
|cut the two ends of the cords making sure that the ends will be hidden under the knot
|melt the ends with a lighter
|sew the two ends using a matching thread
|this is how the back looks once done!
Because I used nylon cord (which again, is REALLY slippery), I sew few stitches all around the knot to make sure that won't get messy.
xox, d.


text:
STRANGE BUT TRUE- Sun sums: How to calculate shadow lengths
Q. On which day of the year does a house cast its longest shadow, and why might some folks want to know? –J. Tolbert
A. Sunshine access is the issue. Shadows are longest on the shortest day of the year, which is the winter solstice (in the Northern hemisphere about December 22), say Jeffrey Bennett and William Briggs in Using and Understanding Mathematics. Some cities have laws prohibiting property owners from constructing new houses or additions that cast shadows on nearby houses, thereby "allowing everyone access to the Sun for the use of solar energy devices." One such law prohibits structures casting a noontime shadow reaching farther than would be cast by a 12-foot fence on the property line, on the shortest day of the year. Hmmm– always wondered when those trigonometry tables would come in handy.
Q. Special birthdays such as the first, 21st (adulthood), and 100th (centenarian) are common, but around the world, what are some uncommon special ones? –W. Scott
A. Japan: 60, 69, 76, 77, 87, 89, 98 are traditional celebrations of longevity ("chojuiwai"). Ages 3 and 5 for boys and 3 and 7 for girls are also considered significant. (University of Hawaii's Center for Japanese Studies) In China, 30 signals adulthood. And in several Latino cultures, a girl's 15th birthday (a "quinceanera") marks this passage.
Many African cultures have coming-of-age parties in groups rather than for individual children, much like certain Lutheran or Catholic confirmation ceremonies. Northern Germany: A man still without a wife on his 30th birthday sweeps the stairs of city hall to show he's available and not a bad bargain since he cleans house well. An unmarried woman polishes her front door knob.
Northern Europe: Birthdays 10, 20, 30, 40, etc are much-gifted "round" years, says University of California-Los Angeles folklorist Timothy R. Tangherlini. Vietnam: Tet, the start of the lunar New Year, is considered everyone's birthday. Babies turn 1 on Tet no matter the exact day they were born.
Korean babies are "1" at birth and turn a year older on lunar New Year's, adds Tangherlini. "Tol" is celebration of the first anniversary of the birth, so a child born right before lunar New Year might be considered "2 years old" from day 3 through the next New Year. 60 is most significant, marking a full zodiacal cycle and a full lifetime– "Anything after that is icing on the cake."
Q. Could a person live without a stomach? –K.Moss
A. As a child, Mike S. watched his mother, aunts, and uncles die of stomach cancer, and as an adult he lived in dread of the disease, to the point where he never married, says Amy Adams in Stanford Medicine magazine. Then in recent years, Mike and others in the family were tested and found to be carriers of a rare cancer-causing mutation, putting them at 70-80 percent risk of getting the killer disease.
They eventually decided "their best defense was offense" by having their stomachs removed and the bottom of the esophagus attached directly to the intestine. While this is major surgery, 11 of the cousins went ahead with the procedure.
"The specter of gastric cancer is gone forever," Mike says now.
But patients need a new way of eating afterward. Some foods such as salads take a long time to digest and fall off the menu; others are okay in small quantities. One patient says she can still eat almost anything, as long as she remembers to "chew, chew, chew."
Q. Six beefy guys line up on one side, six on the other, 1800 pounds v. 1800 pounds, the total kinetic energy unloosed by each "wall of bodies" during the collision equivalent to a 1.5-ton pickup truck going 4.3 mph, or to 6 bullets from a .357 Magnum handgun. And it's not just hit on hit, force = ma, but also body leverage and torque. Who are these big bruisers, and what's going on here? –T. Barber
A. They're the dozen or so offensive and defensive linemen going at one another during pro football action, says Timothy Gay in Football Physics: The Science of the Game. Actually, over an entire play of 5 seconds, each lineman could deliver 4.3 horsepower. Total kinetic energy estimated for all players on both sides is a whopping 40,000 horsepower-seconds for a game of 100 plays, or enough to lift the 1.5-ton pickup truck 87,000 inches into the air, or 1.4 miles!
Interestingly, says Gay, because of a 60 percent increase in player weight and 12 percent climb in top-speed since 1920, total kinetic energy dumped into "the pit" has likely doubled, yet major injuries (concussions, broken legs) have stayed about the same, primarily owing to better equipment.
Send Strange questions to brothers Bill and Rich at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Hello @MrBean35000vr I hope you don't mind, just wanted to ask if you planned to make any update for the accf disc method patcher, for resolving the problem with long loading screens (maybe OSLink problem?). I can guess you are busy with other stuff, but I wish it could work.
My friend codes are: Brawl 0949-5404-5562 | Last Story (PAL) 3870 2211 5436| Mario Kart Wii 4471-1515-9200 | The Conduit 3570-8233-6342 | Water Warfare 3397-8082-8601. Message me if you add me


text:
May 15th, 2013
Beyonce, feeling better, apologizes for canceled show
Beyoncé is on the rebound after canceling a concert Tuesday due to "dehydration and exhaustion."
In a letter on her website, the 31-year-old entertainer apologized to her "dearest fans" in Antwerp, Belgium, who missed out on seeing the singer perform yesterday.
"I've never postponed a show in my life," Beyoncé wrote. "It was very hard for me. I promise I will make it up very soon. I'm sorry if I disappointed you."
Bey called off the show under advisement from her doctors, who told her she needed to rest. Thanks to the timing, the announcement fueled speculation that the star is expecting her second child with husband Jay-Z, with whom she has a toddler, Blue Ivy.
Beyoncé made no mention of the pregnancy rumors in her apology note, but thanked her fans for their concern.
"I'm feeling much better now, and I'm ready to give you a great show," she said, confirming that Wednesday's performance in Antwerp will carry on uninterrupted.
The May 14 concert will be rescheduled, and those with tickets have been instructed to hold on to them for the new show date. Other stops on Bey's "Mrs. Carter Show" tour aren't expected to be affected.
soundoff (71 Responses)
Post a comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.
About this blog
Our daily cheat-sheet for breaking celebrity news, Hollywood buzz and your pop-culture obsessions.


text:
Wisconsin farmland values slow
State's agricultural land inches up 1 percent in the last year
MADISON, Wis. — The value of Wisconsin's agricultural land inched up just 1 percent in the last year, well behind neighboring states.
The average value of Wisconsin farmland increased to $4,000 an acre, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture survey. But that's compared to a 20 percent jump in in Iowa to $8,400 an acre and a 16.4 percent increase in Illinois to $7,800 an acre.
The biggest increase in the nation was in North Dakota where the average value of farm real estate jumped more than 36 percent to $1,690 an acre, according to the USDA survey, which was conducted the first two weeks of June.
Though farm real estate values in Wisconsin did keep pace with its neighbors, it did grow at a faster clip in recent years, including a 7.4% increase in 2012 and an 8% increase in 2011, according to the survey.
Wisconsin farmers have been conservative in what they will pay for land compared with farmers in grain-producing states, largely because they tend to grow corn and soybeans to feed their own livestock rather than selling the crops on the commodities markets.
"We just have not seen the big push for higher prices here," said Bob Oleson, executive director of the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association. "I think everybody is looking for a little stability in land prices," Oleson told the Journal Sentinel.
Land values can be affected by a handful of high-priced property sales and can drive up the rent that farmers pay for cropland, said Kevin Jarek, a University of Wisconsin Extension agent in Outagamie County. Land rents, in some cases, have jumped to $300 an acre for the most fertile ground in southern Wisconsin.
"I have gotten a lot more calls about renegotiating land rents, and that's directly tied to the fact that some people may not want to sell their land," Jarek said.
The rally in land prices and rents may slow this year if the price of corn drops from $7 a bushel to $4, as some commodity analysts predict.


text:
With an area of over 2300 square metres, the Franconian Switzerland - Veldenstein Forest Nature Park in the triangle of Bamberg, Bayreuth and Nuremberg is one of the largest nature parks in the whole of Germany and has been recognised by the Association of German Nature Parks' "Nature Park Quality Campaign".
The Franconian Switzerland Nature Park comprises the green space of the northern Franconian Jura and the River Main Cycle Route, the Vierzehnheiligen (Fourteen Saints) Basilica pilgrimage church in the north and the Pegnitz Valley in the south. Its heartland is the popular day trip and holiday region of Franconian Switzerland, an area rich in tradition.
The romantic highland scenery is characterised by chalky, White Jurassic rock cliffs, karstic springs, deep valleys and caves featuring mighty dripstone formations. The region is home to striking flora and fauna such as 40 orchid species, and with a little luck visitors might also see rare birds of prey, for whom the steep cliff faces provide the ideal nesting site.
The approximately 175 square metre information centre built in 2013 offers visitors an insight into this rich and varied countryside. Here hikers, climbers and explorers both young and old can find out about typical regional plant and animal life, the area's geology, caves and the Castle Road that runs through the park, as well as about typical Franconian customs . The area also has the largest number of caves and cliffs in all of Germany, with the exception of the Alps, and the karst landscape of the Kuppenalb with its dolomite crags and bizarre rock spires are unique in Europe.
Δύο χρήσιμοι συνδυασμοί πλήκτρων για μεταβαλλόμενη εστίαση στο πρόγραμμα περιήγησης:
Μεγέθυνση: +
Σμίκρυνση: +
Περισσότερη βοήθεια προσφέρει ο πάροχος του προγράμματος περιήγησης με ένα κλικ στο εικονίδιο:


text:
Atanas Terziiski
ATANAS TANOV TERZIISKI earned a Master's degree in Chemistry at the University of Plovdiv (1997). During the period 2001– 2006 he worked and successfully defended a doctoral dissertation in Germany, the University of Duisburg-Essen in the field of Atmospheric Chemistry. Presently he is a professor at the University of Plovdiv and works in the field of modeling the chemical processes and the information technology. He was the Internet administrator of the University of Plovdiv during 1999 - 2012. Since the beginning of 2013 he is the director of the Computer Assisted Research and Teaching Lab. He has managed a NATO project (2007 – 2009) and the Young Researchers project of NSF (2010 – 2013). He has taken part in a number of international and national projects. He is married with three children. (Personal website http://atanas.uni-plovdiv.net)


text:
Worldcat.org is a free online service that connects you to the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide. It is a wonderful resource for genealogy and history researchers.
Once you find a book, reference, CD, etc that you would like to access further, you can use your public or university library card to arrange an interlibrary loan or get further information.
WorldCat.org lets you:
- Search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby
- Find books, music, and videos to check out
- Find research articles and digital items (like audiobooks) that can be directly viewed or downloaded
- Link to "Ask a Librarian" and other services at your library
- Post your review of an item, or contribute factual information about it
You may need to have an active offline membership with a WorldCat library to view/download content or check out materials through its Web site.
Quebec Genealogy on Worldcat
I used Worldcat.org to see what was available for "Quebec genealogy" resources.
That search alone (on the entire collection of books, CDs etc) produced 8553 results! Obviously I needed to narrow it down a little.
I added "Eastern Townships" to the search "Quebec genealogy" and was able to narrow it down to 74 hits. The Eastern Townships is mostly English Quebec and where my ancestors settled.
That search gave me great information including:
All great finds which I plan to check out further.
I strongly recommend that you search worldcat.org. Who knows you just might find that Surname Family History book that features your family!
[This search was the result of Amy Coffin's challenge (from the We Tree blog) for "52 Weeks to Better Genealogy". Thanks Amy for introducing us to another great online tool for genealogy research.]


text:
We use cookies to ensure that you have the best experience on our website. If you continue browsing, we'll assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Find out more
You are here:
20% off when you spend £40. Code: SAVE20 ts&cs apply
Free returns
£3.95 standard UK delivery
All profits fight poverty
Share this product with your friends and family!
Out Of Stock
This amazing coat by Berwin for Harrods is perfect for any occasion this winter!three front pockets full length sleevescalf length woven wool fabric open collar styleMeasurements:Chest: 38"Nape to Hem: 44"Inside Sleeve: 16"Overall Condition:Good condition
We're sorry to say this item has now sold out.
There are over 100,000 more items in stock. Start browsing with our suggestions below.
This amazing coat by Berwin for Harrods is perfect for any occasion this winter!three front pockets full length sleevescalf length woven wool fabric open collar styleMeasurements:Chest: 38"Nape to Hem: 44"Inside Sleeve: 16"Overall Condition:Good condition
This item will be dispatched to UK addresses via courier within 7 working days of receipt of your order. A signature will be required on delivery. This item is not available for international delivery.
You can find out more about delivery and returns in our help section.
We offer a no quibble returns policy All returns must be made within 30 days of receipt.
Courier delivery cost: £8.00
Wonder how this unique item ended up online?
Most of the second-hand items you see online have been donated, by supporters like you, to our high street stores. Each item is then priced, photographed and listed on this site by our amazing team of volunteers from across the country.
After you have bought your item, our team of volunteers package and dispatch it from the Shop straight to you or your chosen recipient.
All profits from the sales of our goods go towards funding Oxfam's work around the world. We rely on your donations to sell online so please keep the cycle of goodness going!
We are proud to say that Oxfam Online Batley is one of the principal online presences for the Oxfam Online Shop. We focus on showcasing your most fabulous donations, offering the most distinctive, sought after and valuable pieces to a worldwide audience. We aim to offer a broad range of items to appeal to everyone, from designer fashion and luxury accessories to technical sportswear and unique vintage pieces from bygone eras.
Everything is listed by our very loyal and committed volunteer team from our fresh new offices in Batley, Leeds. We are a bubbly positive team of mixed ages looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help Oxfam continue in working with others to overcome poverty. In turn, we offer innovative volunteer placements in a friendly and welcoming environment.
You can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Etsy.
Drop us a line or get in touch!
View Shop
What we do
Get involved
Make a donation
© 2015. Oxfam is a registered charity in England and Wales (no 202918) and Scotland (SC039042).
Oxfam GB is a member of Oxfam International.


text:
Kunal Agarwal
Family Practice
From learning how to stay well to the ins and outs of major surgery, we're here with everything you need to know about seeking care in TidalHealth hospitals.Learn More
Being near home and family is important no matter what condition you are facing. From cancer journeys to sleep help to middle-of-the-night emergencies, we are nearby with the best doctors, patient care and health outcomes.
We are better together on the Delmarva Peninsula. With 120+ years of care under our belt, you can be sure the TidalHealth team is here for you.Learn More
We like to say that a rising tide lifts all boats. Our talented physicians and staff give you exceptional care no matter what brings you to our doors.
At TidalHealth, community is our core. We put people at the center of all we do because we know that the best care can only be delivered on the foundation of a strong relationship and genuine connections.Learn More
From education to support groups and preventative screenings, TidalHealth is right beside you on your wellness journey.
TidalHealth is making it easy and convenient to schedule appointments.Schedule an Appointment
Family Practice
Critical Care
Critical Care
Sleep Medicine
TidalHealth's Salisbury Drive-Thru Flu Clinic is returning for its 26th season on Friday, October 9, 2020 at Arthur W. Perdue...
TidalHealth is pleased to welcome Dr. Suguna Chirla, Hematologist and Medical Oncologist to the Allen Cancer Center in Seaford, Delaware...
TidalHealth's Crisfield Drive-Thru Flu Clinic is returning on Saturday, October 3 at the TidalHealth McCready Pavilion, 201 Hall Highway in...


text:
Platform 5's 'Shoffice' (shed + office) is a garden pavilion containing a small office alongside garden storage space located to the rear of a 1950's terraced house in St John's Wood, London.
The brief required the 'shoffice' to be conceived of as a sculptural object that flowed into the garden space. "The glazed office space nestles into an extruded timber elliptical shell, reminiscent of a wood shaving, and forms a small terrace in the lawn." says Platform 5.
The interior is oak lined and fitted out with a cantilevered desk and storage. Two rooflights – one glazed above the desk with another open to the sky outside the office bring light into the work space.


text:
We are cautiously positive for the global economy, and for global equities in particular, as we look ahead into 2013. Global economic conditions remain challenging, and markets are still pricing in a substantial degree of bad news even after the gains made in 2012.
However, some macro improvements—the bottoming of Chinese growth, continued recovery in the United States and the beginning of the healing process in Europe—and a global environment of high liquidity will be strongly supportive for markets over the next 12 months.
Japan's Radical Action
We talked last month about the incoming government in Japan. New Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has come to power on a strong mandate of radical central bank action and increased spending on public works in order to pull the country's economy out of recession and end crippling deflation. Already, the Bank of Japan has increased its asset purchasing program by another $118 billion and has adopted a 2% inflation target.
Unlike in Japan, where the government's intentions have been made clear, U.S. monetary policy has been more scrutinized. The Federal Reserve's successive rounds of quantitative easing provided welcome support for equity markets in 2012. In December, the Federal Reserve announced that it intends to almost double its quantitative easing to $85 billion a month and said that it would continue QE until there was a "substantial improvement" in the labor market. Linking quantitative easing to employment targets in many ways makes official a policy that was already in place.
U.S. Policy Remains Expansive
This was understandably welcomed by markets, but the United States' commitment to quantitative easing was called into question by some when the Jan. 3 FOMC meeting minutes highlighted a dispersion of opinions about how long asset purchases will be appropriate. The senior leadership at the Federal Reserve appears to remain committed to more QE for the foreseeable future. While it is possible that the Fed could bring an early end to its QE program—perhaps toward the end of the year at the earliest—we think this is a low probability outcome, and one that would only be realized if economic growth gathers momentum. As such, we expect any reduction in quantitative easing would be gradual and matched to economic conditions.
The Federal Reserve is sensitive to the role QE plays in market confidence and would undoubtedly avoid undermining confidence. An early end to QE due to strong economic conditions and a substantial improvement in the labor market would be an encouraging sign for equity markets, as it would suggest the Fed believes the U.S. recovery has enough momentum to sustain itself.
Global Conditions Support Risk Appetite
Meanwhile, in China, we do not anticipate a stimulus project on a level with its 2009 stimulus. Like many other emerging market economies, it is at the end of its tightening cycle, and we can expect selective measures in support of its economy over the next year. With Japan and the United States continuing with asset purchasing, and the European Central Bank under Mario Draghi's leadership highly supportive, a global environment of high liquidity will support global equities in 2013.
This liquidity has already boosted the "risk-on trade" and should be expected to drive a further re-rating of risk assets and cyclically exposed stocks in the near term, so long as macro news flow remains benign. While we do expect some continued volatility in equity markets due to issues such as residual fiscal cliff problems in the United States and elections in Italy and Germany, we see equities as being attractively valued with good opportunities for patient investors to expand their equity holdings.
As we continue down the rocky path to normalization, equities continue to be extremely cheap compared to bonds as witnessed by the equity risk premium. We therefore expect the high levels of global liquidity to give confidence to investors to act upon the disparity in valuations between fixed income and equities.


text:
On December 13th of 1963, at a dinner event in New York, the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee awarded its annual Tom Paine Award to Bob Dylan, for his contribution to the fight for civil liberties. Despite not having prepared one, a nervous and slightly drunk Dylan gave a speech that evening — a controversial speech in which he expressed sympathy for Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who, just three weeks previous, had killed John F. Kennedy.
The backlash was immediate, and prompted a fascinating explanatory letter from Dylan to the committee in the days that followed. Transcripts of both the speech and letter can be found below.
(Source: No Direction Home: The Life And Music Of Bob Dylan and Corliss Lamont; Image: Bob Dylan in 1963, via The Guardian.)
Bob Dylan's speech:
I haven't got any guitar, I can talk though. I want to thank you for the Tom Paine award in behalf everybody that went down to Cuba. First of all because they're all young and it's took me a long time to get young and now I consider myself young. And I'm proud of it. I'm proud that I'm young. And I only wish that all you people who are sitting out here today or tonight weren't here and I could see all kinds of faces with hair on their head, and everything like that, everything leading to youngness, celebrating the anniversary when we overthrew the House Un-American Activities just yesterday. Because you people should be at the beach. You should be out there and you should be swimming and you should be just relaxing in the time you have to relax. [Laughter] It is not an old peoples' world. It is not an old peoples' world. It has nothing to do with old people. Old people when their hair grows out, they should go out. [Laughter] And I look down to see the people that are governing me and making my rules, and they haven't got any hair on their head — I get very uptight about it. [Laughter]
And they talk about Negroes, and they talk about black and white. And they talk about colors of red and blue and yellow. Man, I just don't see any colors at all when I look out. I don't see any colors at all and if people have taught through the years to look at colors — I've read history books, I've never seen one history book that tells how anybody feels. I've found facts about our history, I've found out what people know about what goes on but I never found anything about anybody feels about anything happens. It's all just plain facts. And it don't help me one little bit to look back.
I wish sometimes I could have come in here in the 1930's like my first idol — used to have an idol, Woody Guthrie, who came in the 1930's [Applause]. But it has sure changed in the time Woody's been here and the time I've been here. It's not that easy any more. People seem to have more fears.
I get different presents from people that I play for and they bring presents to me backstage — very weird, weird presents; presents that I couldn't buy. They buy — they bring me presents that... I've got George Lincoln Rockwell's tie clip that somebody robbed for me. [Laughter] I have General Walker's car trunk keys — keys to his trunk that somebody robbed for me. Now these are my presents. I have fallout shelter signs that people robbed for me from Philadelphia and these are the little signs. There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
I want to accept this award, the Tom Paine Award, from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. I want to accept it in my name but I'm not really accepting it in my name and I'm not accepting it in any kind of group's name, any Negro group or any other kind of group. There are Negroes — I was on the march on Washington up on the platform and I looked around at all the Negroes there and I didn't see any Negroes that looked like none of my friends. My friends don't wear suits. My friends don't have to wear suits. My friends don't have to wear any kind of thing to prove that they're respectable Negroes. My friends are my friends, and they're kind, gentle people if they're my friends. And I'm not going to try to push nothing over. So, I accept this reward — not reward [Laughter] — award on behalf of Phillip Luce who led the group to Cuba which all people should go down to Cuba. I don't see why anybody can't go to Cuba. I don't see what's going to hurt by going any place. I don't know what's going to hurt anybody's eyes to see anything. On the other hand, Phillip is a friend of mine who went to Cuba. I'll stand up and to get uncompromisable about it, which I have to be to be honest, I just got to be, as I got to admit that the man who shot President Kennedy, Lee Oswald, I don't know exactly where — what he thought he was doing, but I got to admit honestly that I too — I saw some of myself in him. I don't think it would have gone — I don't think it could go that far. But I got to stand up and say I saw things that he felt, in me — not to go that far and shoot. [Boos and hisses] You can boo but booing's got nothing to do with it. It's a — I just a — I've got to tell you, man, its Bill of Rights is free speech and I just want to admit that I accept this Tom Paine Award in behalf of James Forman of the Students Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and on behalf of the people who went to Cuba. [Boos and Applause]
Bob Dylan's letter:
to anybody it may concern...
mr lamont?
countless faces I do not know
an all fighters for good things that I can not see
when I speak of bald heads, I mean bald minds
when I speak of the seashore, I mean the restin shore
I dont know why I mentioned either of them
my life runs in a series of moods
in private an in personal ways, sometimes,
I, myself, can change the mood I'm in t the
mood I'd like t be in. when I walked thru the
doors of the americana hotel, I needed to change
my mood... for reasons inside myself.
I am a restless soul
perhaps wretched
it is hard to hear someone you dont know, say
"this is what he meant t say" about something
you just said
for no one can say what I meant t say
absolutely no one
at times I even cant
that was one of those times
my life is lived out daily in the places I feel
most confortable in. these places are places where
I am unknown an unstared at. I perform rarely, an
when I do, there is a constant commotion burnin
at my body an at my mind because of the attention
aimed at me. instincts fight my emotions an fears
fight my instincts...
I do not claim t be smart by the standards set up
I dont even claim to be normal by the standards
set up
an I do not claim to know any kind of truth
but like an artist who puts his painting (after
he's painted it) in front of thousands of unknown
eyes, I also put my song there that way
(after I've made it)
it is as easy an as simple as that
I can not speak. I can not talk
I can only write an I can only sing
perhaps I should've sung a song
but that wouldn't a been right either
for I was given an award not to sing
but rather on what I have sung
no what I should've said was
"thank you very much ladies an gentlemen"
yes that is what I should've said
but unfortunatly... I didn't
an I didn't because I did not know
I thought something else was expected of me
other than just sayin "thank you"
an I did not know what it was
it is a fierce heavy feeling
thinkin something is expected of you
but you dont know what exactly it is...
it brings forth a wierd form of guilt
I should've remembered
"I am BOB DYLAN an I dont have t speak
I dont have t say nothin if I dont wanna"
I didn't remember
I constantly asked myself while eatin supper
"what should I say? what should I tell 'm?
everybody else is gonna tell 'm something"
but I could not answer myself
I even asked someone who was sittin nex t me
an he couldn't tell me neither. my mind blew
up an needless t say I had t get it back in its
rightful shape (whatever that might be) an so
I escaped from the big room... only t hear my
name being shouted an the words "git in here
git in here" overlappin with the findin of my
hand being pulled across hundreds of tables
with the lights turned on strong... guidin me
back t where I tried t escape from
"what should I say? what should I say?"
over an over again
oh God, I'd a given anything not t be there
"shut the lights off at least"
people were coughin an my head was poundin
an the sounds of mumble jumble sank deep in
my skull from all sides of the room
until I tore everything loose from my mind
an said "just be honest, dylan, just be honest"
an so I found myself in front of the plank
like I found myself once in the path of a car
an I jumped...
jumped with all my bloody might
just tryin t get out a the way
but first screamin one last song
when I spoke of Lee Oswald, I was speakin of the times
I was not speakin of his deed if it was his deed.
the deed speaks for itself
but I am sick
so sick
at hearin "we all share the blame" for every
church bombing, gun battle, mine disaster,
poverty explosion, an president killing that
comes about.
it is so easy t say "we" an bow our heads together
I must say "I" alone an bow my head alone
for it is I alone who is livin my life
I have beloved companions but they do not
eat nor sleep for me
an even they must say "I"
yes if there's violence in the times then
there must be violence in me
I am not a perfect mute.
I hear the thunder an I cant avoid hearin it
once this is straight between us, it's then an
only then that we can say "we" an really mean
it... an go on from there t do something about
When I spoke of Negroes
I was speakin of my Negro friends
from harlem
an Jackson
selma an birmingham
atlanta pittsburg, an all points east
west, north, south an wherever else they
might happen t be.
in rat filled rooms
an dirt land farms
schools, dimestores, factories
pool halls an street corners
the ones that dont own ties
but know proudly they dont have to
not one little bit
they dont have t be like they naturally aint
t get what they naturally own no more 'n anybody
else does
it only gets things complicated
an leads people into thinkin the wrong things
black skin is black skin
It cant be covered by clothes an made t seem
acceptable, well liked an respectable...
t teach that or t think that just tends the
flames of another monster myth...
it is naked black skin an nothin else
if a Negro has t wear a tie t be a Negro
then I must cut off all ties with who he has
t do it for.
I do not know why I wanted t say this that
perhaps it was just one of the many things
in my mind
born from the confusion of my times
when I spoke about the people that went t Cuba
I was speakin of the free right t travel
I am not afraid t see things
I challenge seein things
I am insulted t the depths of my soul
when someone I dont know commands that I
cant see this an gives me mysterious reasons
why I'll get hurt if I do see it... tellin me
at the same time about goodness an badness in
people that again I dont know...
I've been told about people all my life
about niggers, kikes, wops, bohunks, spicks, chinks,
an I been told how they eat, dress, walk, talk,
steal, rob, an kill but nobody tells me how any
of 'm feels... nobody tells me how any of 'm cries
or laughs or kisses. I'm fed up with most newspapers,
radios, tv an movies an the like t tell me. I want
now t see an know for myself...
an I accepted that award for all others like me
who want t see for themselves... an who dont want
that God-given right taken away
stolen away
or snuck out from beneath them
yes a travel ban in the south would protect
Americans more, I'm sure, than the one t Cuba
but in all honesty I would want t crash that
one too
do you understand?
do you really understand?
I mean I want t see. I want t see all I can
everyplace there is t see it
my life carries eyes
an they're there for one reason
the reason t see thru them
my country is the Minnesota-North Dakota territory
that's where I was born an learned how t walk an
it's where I was raised an went t school... my
youth was spent wildly among the snowy hills an
sky blue lakes, willow fields an abandoned open
pit mines. contrary t rumors, I am very proud of
where I'm from an also of the many blood streams that
run in my roots. but I would not be doing what
I'm doing today if I hadn't come t New York. I was
given my direction from new york. I was fed in
new york. I was beaten down by new york an I was
picked up by new york. I was made t keep going on
by new york. I'm speakin now of the people I've met
who were strugglin for their lives an other peoples'
lives in the thirties an forties an the fifties
an I look t their times
I reach out t their times
an, in a sense, am jealous of their times
t think I have no use for "old" people is a betrayin thought
those that know me know otherwise
those that dont, probably're baffled
like a friend of mine, jack elliott, who says he
was reborn in Oklahoma, I say I was reborn in
New York...
there is no age limit stuck on it
an no one is more conscious of it than I
yes it is a fierce feeling, knowin something you
dont know about's expected of you. but it's worse
if you blindly try t follow with explodin words
(for that's all they can do is explode)
an the explodin words're misunderstood
I've heard I was misunderstood
I do not apologize for myself nor my fears
I do not apologize for any statement which led
some t believe "oh my God! I think he's the one
that really shot the president"
I am a writer an a singer of the words I write
I am no speaker nor any politician
an my songs speak for me because I write them
in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope
with no one except my own self. I dont have t face
anyone with them until long after they're done
no I do not apologize for being me nor any part of me
but I can return what is rightfully yours at any
given time. I have stared at it for a long while
now. it is a beautiful award. there is a kindness
t Mr Paine's face an there is almost a sadness in
his smile. his trials show thru his eyes. I know
really not much about him but somehow I would like
t sing for him. there is a gentleness t his way.
yes thru all my flounderin wildness, I am, when it
comes down to it, very proud that you have given this
t me. I would hang it high, an let my friends see in
it what I see, but I also would give it back if
you wish. There is no sense in keepin it if you've
made a mistake in givin it. for it means more'n any
store bought thing an it'd only be cheatin t keep it
also I did not know that the dinner was a donation
dinner. I did not know you were gonna ask anyone
for money. an I understand you lost money on the
masterful way I expressed myself... then I am in debt t you
not a money debt but rather a moral debt
if you'd a sold me something, then it'd be a money debt
but you sold nothin, so it is a moral debt
an moral debts're worse 'n money debts
for they have t be paid back in whatever is missin
an in this case, it's money
please send me my bill
an I shall pay it
no matter what the sum
I have a hatred of debts an want t be even in
the best way I can
you needn't think about this, for money means
very little t me
so then
I'll return once again t the road
I cant tell you why other people write, but I
write in order to keep from going insane.
my head, I expect'd turn inside out if my hands
were t leave me.
but I hardly ever talk about why I write. an I
scarcely ever think about it. the thought of it is
too alarmin
an I never ever talk about why I speak
but that's because I never do it. this is the
first time I am talkin about it... an I pray
the last
the thought of doing it again is too scary
ha! it's a scary world
but only once in a while huh?
I love you all up there an the ones I dont love,
it's only because I do not know them an have not
seen them... God it's so hard hatin. it's so
tiresome... an after hatin something to death,
it's never worth the bother an trouble
out! out! brief candle
life's but an open window
an I must jump back thru it now
see yuh
respectfully an unrespectfully
(signed, 'bob dylan')
RSS Feed proudly sponsored by TinyLetter, a simple newsletter service for people with something to say.
- 1960s
- Andrea del Sarto
- apology
- Bob Dylan
- bobdylan
- car trunk keys
- Compilation albums
- Conan
- controversial
- Corliss Lamont
- Cuba
- David Jones
- Dylan
- Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
- George Lincoln Rockwell
- Human Interest
- James Forman
- John F. Kennedy
- Lee Harvey
- Lee Oswald
- Mick Jagger
- Minnesota
- Mohd Huzairy
- music
- Navy
- New York
- No Direction Home
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Philadelphia
- Phillip Luce
- Politics
- Rock operas
- Shaun Usher
- Steve Marriott discography
- Students Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
- The Guardian
- The Guardian
- Tom Paine
- travel ban
- US Federal Reserve
- Washington
- Woody Guthrie


text:
Philip Guston's fifty-year career stands as a unique allegory of the changing conditions of American art in the latter half of the twentieth century. Evolving an imagery that moved from "Symbolic Realism" to abstraction and back to a searching form of autobiographical figuration in the last decade of his life, Guston engaged each decade as if it needed to be seen anew and the meaning of the moment renegotiated.
In the Museum's Untitled, 1963 and Drawing, 1965, the ink lines are relaxed into lyrical shapes. As he had begun to do with painting, Guston now approached drawing as an intuitive process of image discovery, often creating strange, unexpected shapes that vaguely resemble stones.
The gray area between form and non-form was a compelling subject of investigation in much of Guston's work from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. In The Light, 1964, three dark, ambiguous shapes float in a gestural field of gray-pink. Like premonitions, these half-formed shapes suggest the presence of an object, and even the possibility of a vague narrative. Although he had become recognized as a key member of the Abstract Expressionists, Guston was beginning to court imagery again, engaging what he called "the weight of the familiar,"(1) but insisting that the images grow or emerge intuitively from the process of applying paint.
These inflected abstractions of the 1960s projected Guston's growing conviction that subjectivity does not exist in a vacuum. It is a result of engaging the world at large. In 1960, three years before completing The Light, Guston made a startling assessment for a successful abstract painter: "There is something ridiculous and miserly in the myth we inherit from abstract art: that painting is autonomous, pure and for itself, and therefore we habitually define its ingredients and define its limits. But painting is 'impure.' It is the adjustment of impurities, which forces painting's continuity. We are image-makers and image-ridden."(2) As he had gradually deconstructed the representational image in the late 1940s, Guston was now reconstructing it.
—Michael Auping
(1) Dore Ashton, A Critical Study of Philip Guston (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press, 1976): 148.
(2) Musa Mayer, Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988): 141.


text:
watch 01:38
The Loop (Movies)
Do you like this video?
|This article is a stub.
|Not all information has been covered about this subject. You can help by expanding it!
|This article is out of universe from Kung Fu Panda.
|This subject has been distinguished as part of the real world and therefore should not be taken as part of the fictional universe of the Kung Fu Panda franchise.
Written here is the full transcript of the episode "The Real Dragon Warrior" from the Nickelodeon television series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. This transcript has been separated into three segments, indicated accordingly to the episode's commercial breaks.
Character dialogue lines were originally written by the episode's screenwriter, Allan Rice. Descriptions shown between italicized brackets were written by contributors of this article.
Act 1
Coming soon!
Act 2
Coming soon!
Act 3
Coming soon!
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.


text:
30-03-2018 #1
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could give me some input or suggestions on a controller to buy. A few details to be noted, I'd need it to be either USB or Ethernet but not parallel port because my desktop broke(which had a parallel port) left me glued to my laptop. Now this is mainly for hobby use, therefore I can't spend too much, yet I do realize that these can get quite expensive.
I don't have any experience with the software control either so I'm open to suggestions on that too (although I've seen some solid reviews on Linux cnc and I see mach is commonly used for hobbiest use).
Finally my opinion; I had an Arduino Uno, with grbl firmware downloaded. For a few days I was able to get it working my old cnc by attaching it's pin outs to the proper input pins on my 3axis tb6560. I accidentally left the current slightly too high from the power supply resulting in the tb6560 board eventually frying. Although this happened, I still think it's a good idea to use Arduino as a cnc controller because it is so cheap for what it can offer.
Anywho, like I said, I'm just looking for some suggestions on controller boards and software, I think Arduino is a good controller but I'm open to any opinions as I'm inexperienced. (FYI: I have a 3 axis cnc router 4',2' that consists of nema 23's running off 3 amps).
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
30-03-2018 #2
30-03-2018 #3
i have used the ethernet version of the smoothstepper from warp9,with great success.
coupled with the pmdx 126 breakout board and gecko stepper motor drivers. these were used to convert a connect 121 lathe and a cncmasters junior mill, to mach 3
regards paul
30-03-2018 #4
Arduino/GRBL is the cheapest option. Not that high performance, or that many features, but will plod along and do the job.
Next step up would be a secondhand desktop to get a working parallel port. Opens up the options of LinuxCNC, or Mach.
Then you're in to the realm of various USB/Ethernet external motion controllers.
CS-Labs, PMDX, CNC-Drive UCxxx, KFlop, SmoothStepper, Planet CNC, along with various Chinese offerings, and a few others I've forgotten.
What would be recommended depends on if you're looking for any specific features, want certain customisation, and budget.Avoiding the rubbish customer service from AluminiumWarehouse since July '13.
30-03-2018 #5
Alright so I've gotten a lot of input and I realized the common denominator is that it really depends on what software you're starting with, and what your budget is set at.
So I got some great input on Linux cnc although I read up on it that you need a Real Time Operating System, (I don't really have a great understanding on that, if someone could help a brother out). I also see Mach3 and 4 are very common yet unreliable (I'm not totally sure why it isn't reliable but can someone explain or direct me to where I can find out)
I've also got solid recommendations about UCCNC using the UC400ETH controller
So what would you guys recommend, or why would you guys not recommend another software.
By the way, up till now I was thinking of purchasing the Ethernet smooth stepper with Mach 3/4, or the UC400 with UCCNC.
Summary- what cnc software would you recommend for someone building a simple 3 axis cnc
- sorry again if I left anything out, let me know.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk
30-03-2018 #6
personally I would get the uc300eth and UCCNC
30-03-2018 #7
30-03-2018 #8
For a basic 3 axis machine, then there's not really much to choose between controllers.
You might also want to consider one of the standalone controllers (search ebay for "CNC offline controller" or "CNC standalone controller").
Regards Mach 3 problems, on a basic machine it works fine. There are some issues when you go beyond the basics though, especially with external motion controllers, but nothing that really makes it unusable. It's just quirks that mean you might not be able to do things how you think they should be done.
Mach 4 is fine, it's just it's never really been that popular. Mach 3 was pretty revolutionary for it's time and is why it is so popular, but technology has changed, there are far more options now, and Mach 4 doesn't really bring any major benefits over the other options.Avoiding the rubbish customer service from AluminiumWarehouse since July '13.
30-03-2018 #9
The Following User Says Thank You to m_c For This Useful Post:
30-03-2018 #10
The Following User Says Thank You to Chaz For This Useful Post:
Thread Information
Users Browsing this Thread
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Similar Threads
CSLAB CSMIO/IP-M 4-axis Ethernet Motion ControllerBy dudz in forum CS-Lab (CSMIO)Replies: 35Last Post: 02-01-2017, 12:27 AM
BoB Suggestions within UKBy andy_con in forum General ElectronicsReplies: 9Last Post: 09-05-2016, 09:39 PM
USB/Ethernet controller for Mach3/4 adviceBy paulus.v in forum Control Hardware & SystemsReplies: 17Last Post: 17-02-2015, 08:37 PM
Boring Bar Suggestions?By Washout in forum Lathes, Lathe Rebuilding & ConversionsReplies: 10Last Post: 21-06-2014, 07:59 AM
USB and Ethernet Mach3 motion controller PLCM-E3By Purelogic R&D in forum Manufacturer NewsReplies: 39Last Post: 29-12-2012, 08:38 AM


text:
TCF, 85 CE 86 EE 4B B1 72 9B 0A AD 15 46 47 33 2C 30 (2015). Screenshot of audio composition as presented online as part of EBM (T).
You're a small triangle in flight across a screen, four pixels wide and eight pixels tall. Your lot in life is to be an (x,y) pair. Your velocity has a fixed range. After the chaos of your origin at a random point in this field, your path is wholly determined by the triangles flying closest to you, and your path influences them in turn.
You are both an instantiated object and a member of a flock, a class, a school. You follow three rules: separation, alignment, cohesion. These three rules collaborate to update your position—helping you avoid collision, target a collective goal, stay close to friends.


text: YE3-25-112-1 - Yale Aluminum-Series Chrome Plated Steel Shackle Padlock 25mm Product Features and Benefits Aluminum padlock body Plastic protective cover Chrome plated steel shackle 3 Keys 4 colors for plastic protective cover: Black, Green, Blue, Pink. Product Specifications Body material : Aluminum Shackle material : Chrome Plated Steel Shackle No. of padlocks : 1 No. of keys : 3 Corrosion rating : Indoor Body width MM : 25 Close Interested in this product? Contact us to order Related products YE3-32-148-1 YE3-32-116-1 YE3-25-141-1


text:
Jay started the meme. I think. Here's my take:
If I had a quarter of a billion dollars.
Computers. I like them. Fast ones. I'd have a bank of them for various purposes down in the basement, each fed to a different TV in the house. The entire place would be wired with cameras on the exterior and a few on the interior in common thoroughfares like hallways, the kitches, and living/family room(s).
Enough land, preferably here in Utah, for a 1,500 yard range. It would be a commercial range with 25 lanes. Every 100 yards would be a set of steel resetting targets. Every 250 yards would be a set of dueling trees every other lane.
For transportation, I would just get 3 brand-new vehicles. An SUV of undetermined make/model and a pickup truck. I'd get 2 trailers, though. One is an open trailer with optional rails I can put around it to secure stuff to and a second trailer that's fully enclosed. That would hold the new Harley.
I'd have a new home built, but nothing extravagant on the outside. Probably about 4,000 square foot. In the basement, I'd have a vault built for the myriad of guns I don't yet have (and for the few I *DO* have). It would extend into the backyard (buried, so the backyard would look normal) and would contain a 25 yard indoor shooting range, well ventilated and capable of taking any sized round up to and including .50 BMG.
Another room in the basement would be my reloading room. It would have 3 reloading stations. Who likes reloading alone ALL the time?
Have you ever seen the DIY car shops? I used to find them on base. You'd pay like $20 and you'd get all the tools you'd need to fix your car. For an extra $5, you had access to a lift to put your car up on.
Yeah, that… but for guns. I'd open a shop with an identical concept. I'd have 15 reloading stations, each replete with a multi-stage reloader, full set of tools for non-reloading maintenance, and full stock of all kinds of ammo supplies available for purchase. I'm sorry, if you reload .22 WSSM, you're screwed. Bring your own crap! OTHERWISE, full sets of every kind of die you could think of for all of the MOST COMMON calibers. Upon request, I will get the more obscure dies. This facility would also have 3 test firing ranges, each segregated from the others. They would be set up so if you were trying out a new reload, AT THE RISK OF YOUR OWN GUN, you could rig it up into a lead sled and pull the trigger using some cord through a hole in the Lexon panel and see if your gun blows up in your face or not.
My garage would fit 4 vehicles. The Harley would have its own garage, though, so that's not counted here. The back edge of the garage would be very one of those garages that you see on those home makeover shows where the guy likes cars. They end up decking it out. That. In my garage. I'll figure out what I need to do with all of it. You let me worry about that part.
I'd use the money to fund a commercial product. I want to invent cameras that fit on your guns. Think of a gun light on a picatinny rail, but a camera. Hell, if they can fit full 1080p on helmets for $200, I see no reason that you can't have one to sit on a gun. Perhaps with one of these, Mr. Zimmerman wouldn't be in the pickle he's in now.
I'd get certified in all of the NRA training courses. Training on weapons, not training trainers. Maybe that for later…
That leads me into the last thing I'd get: A guest house that's also about 4,000 sqft. This is so I can buy friendship in #GBC and convince people to visit me so I don't turn into a hermit. People would wake up to the bowling ball cannons going off a few hundred yards off instead of a rooster.
It would be called the Joseph Palmer Center for Self-Defense and there would be a bronze statue in the front yard of Joseph Palmer, life-sized!


text:
In case you hadn't heard, a 500-megaton hydrogen bomb is about to drop on the entire sport of college football, and the fallout will be great for couch potatoes who love autumn Saturdays in front of the TV.
The University of Nebraska could join the Big Ten conference as early as tomorrow. When that happens, the Big 12 conference that Nebraska once called home will be summarily destroyed. ESPN is reporting the the Pac-10 conference is about to extend invitations to six leftover Big 12 schools, including national powers Texas and Oklahoma. The Big Ten could also add Missouri, Rutgers, Syracuse, and their longtime crush, Note Dame. If that happens, the Big East conference could ALSO end up folding.
None of this takes into account what the SEC and ACC might do in response to such aggressive moves, particularly with big schools like Kansas potentially left in the lurch. What you need to know is that, by 2015, there may only be four major conferences left in college sports. And it's all because of money. With 16 teams, the Pac-10 can start its own TV channel and give its members an extra $10 million a year, and virtually double what OU and Texas got as members of the Big 12.
Now, here's why this is all a good thing for college football. For years and years and years, people like me have been complaining that college football does itself no favors by having a brilliant regular season, followed by a month off, followed by a postseason that has about as much importance as the NFL preseason. There is one useful bowl game every year – the BCS title game. The rest are pointless exhibitions. And the whole idea that college football's awesome regular season would be hurt by a playoff is dumb for about a zillion reasons. Ask NFL fans if they find their league's regular season uninteresting.
Playoff advocates have always said college football administrators are foolish for ignoring the potentially lucrative impact of holding a playoff. Well, it appears those same administrators have ALWAYS wanted a piece of that playoff revenue, they just didn't quite know how to do it politically. The bowl system is so entrenched in college football, that it's not as easy as it looks to just do away with it.
But if college football as we know it ceased to exist, well then that makes matters a bit easier. Dan Wetzel explains at Yahoo!:
The BCS has killed everyone financially. It's killed them to the point only a dozen or so schools break even each year on athletics. Most athletic departments need student fees or taxpayer funded general university budgets to cover expenses (nearly $900 million combined in 2008-09 according to USA Today).
U.S. & World
So what we have here is broken business model that can be "fixed" by doing two things: 1) Installing a playoff to generate more money, 2) Cutting down the number of schools who would share in that money. But you can't do the playoff part of the plan without first doing the brutal slashing and cutting of weaker schools. And that's what you have going on this week. This is the dirty work.
The upshot of this: We finally, at long last, will get some sort of college football playoff. With meaningful college football games in late December, and brackets, and everything you've ever wanted. And all it took was the complete and utter destruction of every college football tradition you hold dear, and supposedly high-class universities acting in the most nakedly greedy way humanly possible. The question to you is: Do you think it'll all be worth it?
My take: OH YES. Traditions are overrated. A chance to gamble in an office pool at Christmas? That's forever, gang. WOOHOO MADNESS IS ON ITS WAY AT LONG LAST.


text:
The search found 1 result in 0.027 seconds.
A report on the Participatory Action Research (PAR) project implemented by Save the Children's Southeast & East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office during April 1999 to March 2001 with funding from the Department of International Development (UK). The PAR project is a new approach to learning, documenting and developing potential for change. The participants of PAR project strongly recommend this approach as an effective way to address sensitive issues to children and youth in vulnerable situations.


text:
Rebels seize army base in eastern Syria
By ZEINA KARAM | Associated Press
Associated Press/B.K. Bangash – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks with his Pakistani counterpart Raja Pervaiz Asharf, right, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, after Erdogan arrived in Pakistan for the D-8 summit. The economic bloc of eight D-8 developing nations with large Muslim populations meet as diplomats help to secure a Gaza truce and heavy fighting continues to rage in Syria. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash) less
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels seized a key military base with artillery stockpiles in the country's east Thursday, strengthening their hold in an oil-rich strategic province bordering Iraq, activists said.
The rebels have been making advances in the Deir el-Zour province recently, and the capture of the base followed the seizure of a military airport in the same area last week.
In the country's north, meanwhile, the two sides have been locked in a deadly stalemate for months.
Syrian warplanes flattened a building next to a hospital in Aleppo late Wednesday, killing at least 15 people, including a doctor and three children, and damaging one of the last remaining sources of medical help for civilians in the northern city, activists said
Once a private clinic owned by a businessman loyal to President Bashar Assad, the Dar al-Shifa became a field hospital run by volunteer doctors, nurses and aides united by their opposition to the regime and the need to give medical care to both civilians and rebels.
The facility has taken at least six direct hits in recent months, mostly affecting the upper floors. The seven-story hospital is only 400-500 meters (yards) from the front line in a neighborhood that is heavily shelled every day.
The warplanes turned the building adjacent to the hospital into a pile of rubble and sprayed shrapnel and debris into Dar al-Shifa itself, activists said.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, chief of the Observatory, said at least 11 fighters were killed in the raid, in addition to a doctor, a young girl and two children who were on the street.
Another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, confirmed the bombing and identified the doctor as Mohammad Qassem Agha. The group said 40 people died in airstrikes in Aleppo on Wednesday, but did not say how many died in the hospital strike.
Videos posted online by activists showed the flattened building and significant destruction in front of the hospital. Residents and rebels, along with a doctor in green scrubs are seen picking through the rubble and overturned gurneys outside the hospital entrance.
In one video, a man calls for survivors under the rubble while another is heard crying for help underneath a huge slab of concrete.
Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011 with an uprising against Assad's regime, inspired by other Arab Spring revolts. The crisis has since morphed into a civil war, with scores of rebel groups across the country fighting government troops. More than 40,000 people have been killed in the 20 months of unrest, according to activists.
Activist groups and a local fighter told The Associated Press the Mayadeen base fell in the morning hours, after a three-week siege. The fighter spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.
The base was considered the last stronghold for regime forces in the eastern province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
In Damascus, two mortar shells struck the upscale neighborhood of Mazzeh during the morning rush hour Thursday, injuring at least one person, Syrian state TV said.
The report blamed "terrorists" for the attack, a term the government uses for opposition fighters.
The neighborhood is home to a number of foreign embassies and has been targeted several times in the past few days. On Tuesday, two mortars struck the Information Ministry building, causing material damage.
An AP reporter at the scene of the Damascus blasts said one of the shells burned a six-floor apartment in a residential building, seriously injuring one woman. The second mortar struck and damaged the first floor in a building across the street.
Nizar Hamdi, a 38-year-old owner of a computer center, said the timing of the blast coincided with the time students head to school.
"This is a residential area and there are no military bases here. So why are they targeting civilians?" he said.
Syrian TV showed a girl wearing the school uniform who said the mortar fell as she was preparing herself to go to school.
"It was terrifying, I couldn't go to school. People were screaming," she said.
The Syrian capital — the seat of Assad's power — has seen scores of attacks in the past months and a growing number of car bombs and mortar attacks by rebels determining to oust him.
The civil war has often spilled over to Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees have fled to the three neighboring countries to escape the violence in their homeland, raising fears of a wider war in the volatile region.
Tensions have been particularly high along Syria's border with Turkey, prompting the Turkish government to request the deployment of NATO's Patriot surface-to-air missiles to bolster its defenses.
Fighting broke out Thursday in the city of Ras al-Ayn on the Syrian side of the border, but it was between Kurdish and Arab rebel factions, according to an official at the mayor's office in the nearby Turkish town of Ceylanpinar. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government rules.
The groups cooperated to oust Syrian regime forces from the ethnically mixed area earlier this month, but they have frequently clashed since then over control of the city.
The Britain-based Observatory, which relies on reports from the ground, has confirmed the infighting in northeastern Syria, an ethnically mix area along the border with Turkey.


text:
It's the Battle at Sacramento State!
The American Cancer Society and Sacramento State Basketball are teaming up for the Coaches vs Cancer 3-Point Challenge. The men's and women's teams are squaring off to see who can raise the most money for cancer research through their gameday performance!
Help your favorite team win the 3-Point Challenge by pledging toward every 3-point shot they make during February. All proceeds will benefit the American Cancer Society.
Click on your team's page below to make your pledge today! And follow the national leaderboard at 3pointchallenge.org
Select a campaign below to get involved!
Get your campaign up and running in minutes.Get Started